Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Scripture is clear. Only God can renew and restore what sin has destroyed.

Here's today's podcast revealing more truth about sin.

Now what I want to talk about in this message is this simple theme.

What is the truth about sin? Well I can give you lots of illustrations of how people have sinned against God

and what happened to them. And most people's response to that would be well.

That's just what happened to them. That was their tough look. That was an exception.

They just had a hard time. I want us to understand what God says about sin.

I want us to understand what the principles are. Not simply what somebody's experienced, but what does God say about the nature of sin?

When you and I look at the nature of sin, it's very evident in the Scriptures, several things.

The Bible says that sin blinds us. Does he not say in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, 1 Corinthians chapter 2?

For example, the lost person, the natural man, does not understand the things of God. He's blind. He can't see them.

Because he has an old sin nature, you don't expect him to be able to discern and proceed and understand what only the spirit of God can reveal when he's rejected the spirit of God.

Man's blind. And so he goes on in his endless search, trying to gain, trying to possess, trying to climb the ladder, wanting recognition, everything, trying to do what?

Full fills something inside of him. I heard that drives them and drives them and drives them. What is it? It is the spirit of God reaching into that life and convicting and trying to make aware that their need is of God.

And turning that off, they try that much harder, that much more determined to make life complete.

You can't complete something when God and God alone holds the final piece of the puzzle.

And everything man attempts is going to be futile and he's blind so he just goes on. It blinds his mind.

What does the Scripture say? It defiles his heart. In Jeremiah, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked or desperately sick.

We look at our society and you know intelligent men and women, no better. But when you are blind to the truth and your heart is defiled and deceitful and desperately wicked, what does mandu?

When he steps out of dependence upon God, the first thing he does is he becomes outrageously greedy and selfish and attempts to satisfy something in the human heart which he cannot satisfy.

Sin blinds, that's why our society is in the message sin. You look in every area of our life, politics, science, education, religion, you name it.

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